Shirley Sherrod shafted by the Right (and Left)

[jclalor 12]

Will the White house retract it's statements and give her back her job?

I loved Rove's comments on fox after he admitted that she was not a racist. He stated that while she may not be a racist, she is stll a bad person for inciting class warfare. Sherrod had stated that she should help people regardless of their skin color but should instead try to help the poor with their struggles against the rich.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011138-503544.html

[jgoose71 0]

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Will the White house retract it's statements and give her back her job?

I loved Rove's comments on fox after he admitted that she was not a racist. He stated that while she may not be a racist, she is stll a bad person for inciting class warfare. Sherrod had stated that she should help people regardless of their skin color but should instead try to help the poor with their struggles against the rich.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011138-503544.html

She didn't get in trouble for class warfare, she got in trouble for discrimination. Here is the huffington post on the matter (since the left doens't believe anything fox news says)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/shirley-sherrod-resigns-usda-naacp_n_652185.html

Her comments are on video about half way down.

I for one am ecstatic. This is the first time I think I have seen the Obama administration police it's self. I won't get used to it though.

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[RonD1120 59]

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Will the White house retract it's statements and give her back her job?

I loved Rove's comments on fox after he admitted that she was not a racist. He stated that while she may not be a racist, she is stll a bad person for inciting class warfare. Sherrod had stated that she should help people regardless of their skin color but should instead try to help the poor with their struggles against the rich.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011138-503544.html

I caught a few minutes of the Glenn Beck TV last night. His position was that the blogger who started the mess posted video of her speech out of context. Then the BHO administration demanded her resignation without investigation. According to Sherrod, the White House called her on her cell phone while she was driving and wanted her to pull to the side of the road and resign, right there and then.

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[jclalor 12]

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Will the White house retract it's statements and give her back her job?

I loved Rove's comments on fox after he admitted that she was not a racist. He stated that while she may not be a racist, she is stll a bad person for inciting class warfare. Sherrod had stated that she should help people regardless of their skin color but should instead try to help the poor with their struggles against the rich.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011138-503544.html

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She didn't get in trouble for class warfare, she got in trouble for discrimination. Here is the huffington post on the matter (since the left doens't believe anything fox news says)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/shirley-sherrod-resigns-usda-naacp_n_652185.html

Her comments are on video about half way down.

I for one am ecstatic. This is the first time I think I have seen the Obama administration police it's self. I won't get used to it though.

I guess you don't read much current news. Sharrod was taken complety out of context. She was telling the story of how she at first did not want to help the farmer due to his race but then realized that it was not about race but economic level. she then found this farmer a lawyer and had his farm saved. watch the whole tape. Her father was murderd by the KkK when she was a child and this caused her not to be to fond of whites ( understandable) until she realized it was about class and not race.

The White House should hire her back asap. Even the wingnuts at fox admitted she was not a racist.

[jclalor 12]

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Will the White house retract it's statements and give her back her job?

I loved Rove's comments on fox after he admitted that she was not a racist. He stated that while she may not be a racist, she is stll a bad person for inciting class warfare. Sherrod had stated that she should help people regardless of their skin color but should instead try to help the poor with their struggles against the rich.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011138-503544.html

I caught a few minutes of the Glenn Beck TV last night. His position was that the blogger who started the mess posted video of her speech out of context. Then the BHO administration demanded her resignation without investigation. According to Sherrod, the White House called her on her cell phone while she was driving and wanted her to pull to the side of the road and resign, right there and then.

The White House should hire her back asap.

Did Beck admitt he was wrong for not investigating the story also?

[RonD1120 59]

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The White House should hire her back asap.

Did Beck admitt he was wrong for not investigating the story also?

I did not watch the entire segment; it was lengthy. My impression was that he did investigate the issue and believed she was "fired" unjustly.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[klingeme 1]

I personally think that at one time Shirley was a racist, but learned a lesson.

I also think that all of the members of the NCAA that were in the room applauding the racism before she got to the "and then I learned a lesson" part of the speech are defiantly racists.

Mark Klingelhoefer

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From what I've read she should definately have her job back and should have never been fired in the first place.

Many headline articles state that the DOA spoke to the White House who said she should resign. So who shafted her?

Why does the title of this thread say shafted by the right with the left in ()? Should it be the other way around, if you feel so inclined to add it in the first place?

I think its good that the white farmers in question are standing up for her and have her back.

Strange how the White House had no problem firing her without an investigation but need to have one to hire her back on

[beowulf 1]

It's not very strange, it's politics as usual. It wouldn't have mattered if the Pres. was Democrat or Republican the result would most likely have been the same. Politicians jumped on the oportunity to be seen as fighting racism. I think they would be less likely to apologize or even investigate if the lady was white.

[jclalor 12]

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Why does the title of this thread say shafted by the right with the left in ()? Should it be the other way around, if you feel so inclined to add it in the first place?

Th right started it and then The White House jumped the gun. I guess she was equally screwed by both.

[jclalor 12]

I also think that all of the members of the NCAA that were in the room applauding the racism before she got to the "and then I learned a lesson" part of the speech are defiantly racists.


I am pretty sure this was at a non-athletic event.

[klingeme 1]

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I also think that all of the members of the NCAA that were in the room applauding the racism before she got to the "and then I learned a lesson" part of the speech are defiantly racists.


I am pretty sure this was at a non-athletic event.

You could hear the claps and sounds of agreement coming from the people in the audience off camera as she said she didn't help out quite as much as she could have because she was in control, and he was a white man.

[jclalor 12]

This was at an NAACP event not the NCAA. In any event this thread is about Sherrod and how people like still continue not to be able to understand what happened in context. The audience was not involved.

[klingeme 1]

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This was at an NAACP event not the NCAA. In any event this thread is about Sherrod and how people like still continue not to be able to understand what happened in context. The audience was not involved.

I got you now.....Wow, that's hillarious. Yeah NAACP.

[klingeme 1]

I personally think that at one time Shirley was a racist, but learned a lesson.
Fixed it.....


I also think that all of the members of the NAACP that were in the room applauding the racism before she got to the "and then I learned a lesson" part of the speech are defiantly racists.

Mark Klingelhoefer

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The audience was not involved

Actually the audience was involved and that's the whole reason the clip was posted to begin with.
The original poster of the video claimed it didn't matter whether she was talking about past or present. The people in the audience were not yet aware she was speaking of the past and I believe rightly so accusing the NAACP of being very racist. His point being the NAACP accused the whole Tea Party of being racist but with no documentation whatsoever but here's documentation of NAACP members clearly being racist. (the audience participation)
I mean come on NAACP? In and of itself is racist.
As far as Beck goes those that blame him are far from making the right call. He did his investigation before speaking and straight off said she got hosed.

[JohnRich 4]

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She didn't get in trouble for class warfare, she got in trouble for discrimination. Here is the huffington post on the matter (since the left doens't believe anything fox news says)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/shirley-sherrod-resigns-usda-naacp_n_652185.html

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"The NAACP has retracted its initial statement condemning those comments and says they were "snookered." They are calling for the administration to reconsider Sherrod's ouster."

Maybe the NAACP should also reconsider its knee-jerk racism-bashing of the Tea Party because of the utterances of just one attendee.

[skymiles 3]

Among other things, this shows that FOX News is not a news organization and they are very good at it.

[lost_n_confuzd 0]

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Among other things, this shows that FOX News is not a news organization and they are very good at it.

Just FOX? Just about every major network ran the story of her being fired for being a racist, then ran different stories everytime something "progressed".

[mnealtx 0]

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Among other things, this shows that FOX News is not a news organization and they are very good at it.

Yeah, ok - remind me again about all the stories on MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc about the ACORN tapes?

Then there's this little tidbit.

Mike
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[mnealtx 0]

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***Jealous promised an internal probe at the NAACP to examine why audience members appeared to agree with and support Sherrod’s expressions of hostility to another person based on the color of their skin.

THAT is why the clip got posted.

Mike
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[LyraM45 0]

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She didn't get in trouble for class warfare, she got in trouble for discrimination. Here is the huffington post on the matter (since the left doens't believe anything fox news says)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/shirley-sherrod-resigns-usda-naacp_n_652185.html

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"The NAACP has retracted its initial statement condemning those comments and says they were "snookered." They are calling for the administration to reconsider Sherrod's ouster."

Maybe the NAACP should also reconsider its knee-jerk racism-bashing of the Tea Party because of the utterances of just one attendee.

I don't think it's that they were called a racist organization, but rather they have quite a few racist people that show up to the events saying inappropriate things and holding inappropriate signs, and it's tolerated (and sometimes celebrated) rather than asking those people to leave or even giving them the feeling that they aren't welcome. I think they've been more than clear saying they are not calling the TP as a whole a racist organization, but rather there are racist elements that they don't go out of their way to shoo away at events. I don't think that is knee jerk at all considering that it's true based on the signage present at rallies alone.

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[mnealtx 0]

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I don't think it's that they were called a racist organization, but rather they have quite a few racist people that show up to the events saying inappropriate things and holding inappropriate signs, and it's tolerated (and sometimes celebrated) rather than asking those people to leave or even giving them the feeling that they aren't welcome.

Welcomed like these people?

Or tolerated like this guy?

There's plenty of stuff like this. Unfortunately, what you're going to see from the "MSM" is stuff like the 'racist gun owner at townhall meeting' that turned out to be a black man.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
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